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This book has been written precisely for anyone who may have parents and grandparents that grew up in any big city USA. I believe living in any large city was pretty much the same, no matter where the city was located. I started out to write this book thinking that my friends would enjoy reading it and get a kick out of my reminiscing about our old gang and the times we spent together.
But then I realized that most of my friends sadly are no longer with me and so I thought, well maybe I should write it anyway just to give their siblings and you youngsters an idea of what it was like for your Dad and Mom, or Grandmom and Grandpop, growing up in the big cities during some bad times and some good times.
You will read things I am sure you will not believe, but all I can say is that everything and every word is true as I remember it to be; (don’t laugh).
I know you won’t believe that there was a time in my life when the only phone available for the whole neighborhood to use was at a phone booth down at the corner drug store. You probably won’t believe the cost of going to a movie was only a dime. And I am sure you will think I am, well you know, “too old” or that I exaggerate when I tell you that “Keds” sneakers were just two dollars a pair, a loaf of Italian bread was just a nickel, Pat’s Steaks were just a quarter, cigarettes a penny each, a shot and a beer just thirty-five cents and that was expensive because in some bars you could get a glass of beer for five cents and they would give you a complimentary hard-boiled egg or a baloney sandwich. Lupini beans were always free along with pretzels or peanuts and sometimes hard boiled eggs or bologna and cheese sandwiches at almost every bar in South Philadelphia.
The lyrics to a song; ‘Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine’ recorded by the “Four Aces” with “Al Albert’s”; (words by “Irving Kahal” and ”Willie Raskin” and music by “Sammy Fain”)…kind of sadly sums up some of the events that eventually broke up that old gang of mine.
“Not a soul down on the corner, that’s a pretty certain sign, that wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine.”
“There goes Jack, there goes Jill, strolling down lovers lane. Now and then we meet again but they don’t seem the same. Those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine”.
But it wasn’t only the wedding bells, not altogether; it was the war, the dammed Korean War that broke up the gang. Some war that was, a police action they called it, yeah, and fifty thousand American GI’s lost their lives. And thousands more wounded.

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